It appears gdm -is- running, else you would not see some of gdm display.
The installation message for the GDM package reads:
Code:
To enable the GNOME Display Manager, add the following lines to
/etc/rc.local:
if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/gdm ]; then
echo -n ' gdm'; (sleep 5; /usr/local/sbin/gdm)&
fi
Did you do this?
Perhaps you should run /usr/sbin/gdmsetup to configure GDM.